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make your own mopp

Published March 23, 2006 by lieven

If you
want to make your own ‘My Online Publications Page’ (MOPP) similar
to mine here’s what you have to do :

in case you are running
Linux, all you need is the mopp package and
follow the instruction on this page.
if you are onto Mac OSX you have to get and compile a few more
packages. To start, go to the BibTeX bibliography tools page and
download the bibclean file. Go to
the directory, do a ./configure and a
make and copy the resulting executable bibclean to the
bibtools/bin folder of your mopp-folder (see first
step).
get the latest gawk package. Do a
./configure, then a make and a
sudo make install and gawk gets installed at
/usr/local/bin/gawk. Make a symbolic link (or use a
bruteforce copy) to /usr/bin/gawk.
Make a
symbolic link or a bruteforce sudo cp /bin/ksh
/usr/bin/ksh.
If you are using only scanned
pdf-files it is sufficient to get DjVu-versions of them using the Any2DjVu service. If you want
to do the conversion from Pdflatex-files yourself, get the DjVuLibre package, configure,
make and install it as before. All programs get installed under
/usr/local/bin, write down the files in the
djvu/bin folder of the mopp-folder, remove them and
copy your compiled version of them from /usr/local/bin to the djvu/bin
directory.
Open the work/mopp.sh script of
the mopp-folder in an editor, comment out the recode
line and change the awk line into
awk -v
THENAME=”$MOPP_NAME” -v
THELOGO=”$MOPP_LOGO” -f bib2html.awk \
(that is
add a space after the two -v options).
You should now be
able to follow the remaining instruction from the How to make “My
Online Publications Page” page to get a mopp-page which looks
roughly like this one.
If you want to change the layout of that page, you should
modify the work/bibtex2html.awk file to fit your taste.
If you want to have a layout similar to mine a> email me and I’ll send you my bibtex2html.awk file. Leave a Comment

Three years ago I did spend three weeks next to my Canonscan, painstakingly scanning all individual pages of every preprint I ever wrote. Next, I converted every page to PDF, resized it (in order to control the size) and bundled them into PDF-files. A typical preprint would take me roughly three quarters of an hour and the final result was mediocre. For example, here a blown-up sample from the original 1992 ‘Moduli
spaces of right ideals of the Weyl algebra’ -preprint, resulting in a 1.7Mb PDF-file

Recentlty, the department bought a Ricoh-copier which makes scanning a lot more fun. To scan a preprint at 300dpi and convert it into a single PDF-file takes under a minute (actually, downloading the file using a web-interface takes longer…). For this particular preprint, the resulting PDF-file took up 1.2Mb and looks a lot nicer

Still, 1.2Mb is a huge file but converting it to a DjVu-file (DjVu=deja vu) using the handy Any2DjVu Service gives us a mere 236Kb file which comes a lot closer to the filesize of a PDFLaTeX-file and the output is still very legible

So, I decided to rescan my entire life at 300dpi and convert it into DjVu. Next, I got the MOPP-package (MOPP = My Online Publications Page) working using the instructions from this page and some obvious MacOSX-modifications (if I can do it, so can you but perhaps I’ll write up the details in another post, just to remind myself). You can see the result at my homepage. I’ll update the latter one regularly (there are still some preprints missing, as are all my courses etc. and cross-references) and only afterwards I’ll update my homepage again. So far there is 250Mb to download (including all versions of the noncommutative geometry@n book, including the published ones…) so this should keep you busy for a while…

Inform

Published February 10, 2006 by lieven

Once
upon a time, not so long before the video-games era, people needed the
command-line and knowledge of esoteric commands like _examine_,
_look_, _take_, _drop_, _go south_ etc. to
get into the mysterious worlds of dungeons &
dragons. If you have nostalgia to the heroic times of text-based
adventure games (nowadays called IF for _interactive fiction_),
there is a short message : get Inform(ed)! Here’s a
slightly longer message for those who have a mac running OSX and want to
know the quickest way to get to a screen like and start
playing Christminster (or another of 300 IF-games) (if you’re on a
different system, things will be just as simple but you’ll have to find
it out yourself starting from the Inform-Z
machine page). step 1 : Get a
copy of an inform installation and expand it to get an
Inform-folder and place this in your Home-folder. step 2
: Go in the Finder to Inform/Games/MyGame1 and double click on
the _MyGame1.command_ file. A Terminal window will open and exit
and you will see that a new file appeared in the Folder :
_MyGame1.z5_. Double click it and a warning message will appear
that this is the first time you will open _Zoom_, tell it’s ok
and Zoom will launch and you can play your first (though primitive)
Inform game! step 3 : If you want to play other
games (such as Christminster), go to the Z-
code archive and pick one of the 346 games. For example, click on
the minster.z5 link and the file will download to your
Desktop. Place it in the Inform/Games folder (not necessary) double
click it and you should see the above wellcoming message. That’s it,
start playing. step 4 : If you don’t know how to
play such games, there are excellent tutorials
available on the Inform site.

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make your own mopp

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